[AR] Re: SpaceX drone ship 3 ordered
- From: "John Stoffel" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:49:44 -0500
"George" == George William Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
George> SpaceX via Elon announced order for third drone ship. For
George> downrange recovery of dual FH boosters (with one in Pacific or
George> Atlantic, letting them support a roughly simultaneous F9
George> recovery in Pacific and a FH dual booster recovery in
George> Atlantic, or FH full reuse all 3 stages downrange recovery.
I would think they would order more... since if they get the tempo up
to doing as many launches as they want, then the time to return to
port and then back out again might start to dominate. But maybe not
if they keep two in Atlantic and one Pacific?
Can they launch from Texas and land at Kennedy?
George> Named "A Shortfall of Gravitas"...
Thank you Iain M. Banks!
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